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I'm reminded of how the developers of LilyPond noticed that because of the asymmetric appearance of musical notes, they needed to be spaced asymmetrically in or

I'm reminded of how the developers of LilyPond noticed that because of the asymmetric appearance of musical notes, they needed to be spaced asymmetrically in order to convey the sense of "equal spacing" between them to the eye. LilyPond is full of little beautification details like that to render scores that are pleasing to the eye and read the way musicians expect.

williamdclt 1y ago
Any link? Sounds interesting!
- opello 1y ago
  I was curious and went looking and found these: * https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/essay/engraving-details#optical-spacing https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/essay/engraving... * https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/snippets/expressive-marks-_002d-asymmetric-slurs https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/snippets/expres... The documentation shows a number of configuration directives to control the display and confer semantics generally with the aim of improving readability.
nubero 1y ago
That is a very good catch, I learned something, thank you!